Was Brian Williams a Victim of False Memory?
How reliable is human memory? Most of us believe that our memory is like a video camera, capturing an accurate record that can be reviewed at a later date. But…
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Turning Carbon Dioxide Into Rock, and Burying It
CarbFix, a pilot program at Iceland’s Hellisheidi Geothermal Power Station, seeks to tackle climate change by injecting greenhouse gasses into the ground for permanent storage. HENGILL, Iceland — In a…
Qualcomm Will Pay Record $975 Million Fine in China Antitrust Case
During the past decade, foreign technology companies have plowed billions into China in the hopes of tapping into a fast-growing market. Now that the country has the world’s most Internet…
Migrants Die After Rescue by Italy’s Coast Guard
ROME — Twenty-nine migrants who were rescued alive in rough seas off the Libyan coast died before the Italian Coast Guard could get them to shore, officials said on Monday….
Sidecar, a Ride-Hailing Start-Up, Pushes Into Package Delivery
That is exactly what Sidecar, a ride-hailing start-up in competition with the likes of Uber and Lyft, aims to make happen. The company announced on Monday it plans to use…
Apple Grabs 93% of the Handset Industry's Profit, Report Says
Samsung took the rest, but its share is shrinking, the report said. Canaccord Genuity’s report on industry profits a year ago estimated that Apple took 87.4 percent of phone earnings in the…
Greece to Propose a Debt Compromise Plan to Creditors
ATHENS — Hoping to defuse a standoff that has set Europe and financial markets on edge, Greek officials intend to propose a detailed compromise plan at an emergency meeting with…
China Tells Schools to Suppress Western Ideas, With One Big Exception
BEIJING — They are out there, hiding in library stacks, whispering in lecture halls, armed with dangerous textbooks and subversive pop quizzes: foreign enemies plotting a stealthy academic invasion of…
Airbag Is Approved, but Ski Racers Are Largely Shunning It for Now
MOLVENA, Italy — Broken collarbones. Shattered shoulders. Internal bleeding. Punctured lungs. Those injuries, and worse, are possible every time a world-class skier plunges out of a starting gate and slides…
A Gamble on Peace in Ukraine
PARIS — President François Hollande of France is not known as a high-risk gambler, but even he admitted last week that his last-minute mission in search of peace in Ukraine…
Ruble’s Fall Tests Governor of Russia’s Central Bank
MOSCOW — Elvira S. Nabiullina, the governor of Russia’s central bank, was deep into a speech about her new currency policy when it became clear nobody was paying attention. Her…
Training Birds to Aid a Scientific Breakthrough
With a new device scientists measure the force of a wingbeat while birds fly freely. James Gorman SCIENCETAKE – He said in the lab, researchers played recordings of birds tweeting…
Former Taliban Commander Who Joined ISIS Is Said to Be Killed in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan — A former Taliban commander who had recently pledged allegiance to the Islamic State militant group was killed in a military operation in Helmand Province on Monday, according…
Yemen Political Talks Resume but Quickly Stall Over Houthi Demands
SANA, Yemen — Feuding political parties resumed United Nations-mediated talks with the Houthi militants controlling Yemen’s capital on Monday, but two parties withdrew within hours complaining of threats from the…
Climate Change Is of Growing Personal Concern to U.S. Hispanics, Poll Finds
WASHINGTON — Alfredo Padilla grew up in Texas as a migrant farmworker who followed the harvest with his parents to pick sugar beets in Minnesota each summer. He has not…
European Foreign Ministers Postpone Russia Sanctions to Allow Talks
BRUSSELS — Hoping that diplomacy can still calm an escalating conflict in eastern Ukraine and avert a rift with the United States over whether to send arms to Ukraine, European…
Former Spy Chief in South Korea Sentenced in Election Case
JEJU, South Korea — In a political blow to President Park Geun-hye, a South Korean appeals court on Monday convicted a former government intelligence chief on charges of intervening in…
Same-Sex Marriages Proceed in Alabama as State Judge’s Order Is Defied
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Alabama became the latest state to allow same-sex marriage Monday, as many probate judges defied an order by the chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court and…
How to Prioritize and Save Young Lives
Follow Us: Get the Upshot in your Inbox FEB. 9, 2015 Aaron E. Carroll – Still, we aren’t powerless to address these problems. I spend a fair amount of time…
Egyptian Leader Calls for Inquiry Into Soccer Stadium Deaths
CAIRO — President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on Monday called for an investigation into a confrontation with riot police officers that killed at least 25 people at the gates of a…
In China, Heavy Industry Unexpectedly Falls Sharply
HONG KONG — Steel prices in China have fallen 12 percent in the first five weeks of this year — almost as much as in all of last year —…
Comcast-Time Warner Cable Deal Still Up in the Air a Year Later
A year after it was announced, Comcast’s audacious acquisition of Time Warner Cable remains in limbo as Washington regulators scrutinize the deal. No surprise there. After all, the $45 billion…
Shots Fired Near Marseille on Day of French Prime Minister’s Visit
PARIS — Several armed men fired shots in the air on Monday in a poor suburb of Marseille while the French prime minister, Manuel Valls, was in the city to…
Crisis in Ukraine Underscores Opposing Lessons of Cold War
MUNICH — The Cold War is history, but its spirit this weekend stalked the security conference held here each winter for the past 51 years. Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany…
David Axelrod’s ‘Believer’
Would Barack Obama have been elected president without David Axelrod? That question is less far-fetched than it may seem. To be sure, Obama is a man of prodigious talents —…
Rand Paul Seeks Middle (Sorry, Dad)
DES MOINES — When Ron Paul ran for president in 2008 and 2012, his rallies were decidedly unpretentious affairs, appropriately suited to the scrappy outsider nature of his campaign. His…
HSBC Shares Decline Amid Swiss Tax Avoidance Claims
In a report released on Sunday, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, an organization based in Washington, along with the newspaper Le Monde in France, The Guardian in Britain, the…
China Executes Billionaire Who Ran ‘Mafia-Style’ Criminal Gang
HONG KONG — A Chinese billionaire who was building a mining empire in Australia was executed Monday after a court last year sentenced him to die for running a “mafia-style”…
Suicide Attack Kills at Least 15 in Iraq’s Capital
BAGHDAD — A suicide bomber set off an explosive vest in a busy Baghdad square crowded with rush-hour commuters early Monday, killing at least 15 people and wounding dozens, officials…
A Basketball Mind in Tune With the Social Fabric
Sports of The Times By WILLIAM C. RHODEN For the longest time, the only thing I knew about Dean Smith was his dreaded four corners offense, the system he popularized…